Published in Overland Issue False Documents · Uncategorized The Museum of Lost Things Sonia Focke A look at the archives Image: Pasteurised milk bottle / flickr Read the rest of False Documents If you enjoyed this special edition, subscribe and receive a year’s worth of print issues, the online magazine, special editions and discounted entry to our literary competitions Sonia Focke Sonia Focke is an Egyptologist by profession, a teller of tales by trade. She spins tales of times long gone for curious visitors and of times that never were for any who will join her on the journey. Sonia lives in Munich, Germany. She has showered with a scorpion, married a blacksmith, moved house in a VW Polo and learned the whole of The Mikado by heart. More by Sonia Focke › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 28 September 202328 September 2023 · Cartoons Ban cars from the city Sam Wallman Sam Wallman makes the case for closing the streets off one by one. First published in Overland Issue 228 27 September 2023 · Sport When the sport circus comes on Country Jenny Fraser The next huckster in the carnival of sport is the upcoming 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games. If we want aspects of it to be in line with Aboriginal protocol, we need action from across the four winds of the world. If it’s not done right we need solidarity and protest just the same. We are each other’s safety net in this theatre of sport. As a senior Aboriginal woman activist once told me, ‘we are all only as good as we negotiate’.